The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-05-29

PITTsBURa. PA, May 2S.-A passenger
| train ON the Pennsylvania Railroad
| jumped the track at Horseshoe Bend.
near Kittanning Point, in the Allegheny
| Mountains, last night, @and three cars
went over the embankment. The acci-
dent was caused by the breaking of an
axle on an East bound freight train just
before meeting passenger train. The re-
port says that four persons were killed
and twelve wounded. \ number of
physicians have gone to the scene of the
wreck.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
ALTOONA, Pa, May 27.-To-night as
the fast line West-bound mani tram was
near Kittanning Point the wheels of a
car on the freight train bound East burst
and the car crashed into two passenger
coaches with terrible effect, killing in
stantly four men and injuring many
Others. kilograms Were Immediately
sent to this city for physicians and all
that could be procured We're detailed to
the wreck. The killed are Mr.. Graham,
son of ex-Speaker Graham. of Allegheny,
Pa; j. III. Stauffer, of Louisville; Wy
mer Sydney, of Shamokin, Pa; and
John Doris, a newsboy, of East Lib
erty, Pa: Frank McCue, of - East
Thirty-third street, New York city, will
probably die 4: Charles Biedelman, of
Brinfield, Noble County, Ind, is dying
six others We're seriously but not danger
ously hurt. No passengers occupying
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The accident was an unavoidable one,
and the worst that has happened for
years on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The injured were brought to this city,
and were made as comfortable as possi-
ble
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
PITTsBURG. MAY 2S.-The latest re-
ports from the scene of the accident at
Horseshoe Bend. on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, last night, state that eight
Were killed and six injured. Four were
killed outright, and the others have since
died.
The Inflated train arrived at the Union
depot, in this city, at 40 O'Clock this
morning with some ninety passengers
aboard. For four long hours a group of
anxious mortals paced up and down the
passage ways, lingering impatiently and
in awful suspense as to the fate of their
friends, who had taken passage on the
fast line and We're expected to arrive in
the city at 11.55 O'Clock last night.
Many were the inquiries of the depot
officials regarding the nature of the ter
rible accident, of which all had heard.
but either they could not or would not
give particulars. Every minute seemed
an hour to the waiting crowd. and when
shrill whistle at last signalled the ar
rival of the wrecked train. all eyes We're
turned toward it.
Almost the first person to step from
the train was Miss Mcmahon, a school
teacher in Florida, who was on her way
to her home in Beaver Falls. in this
State. Miss Mcmahon furnished an ac-
count of the awful catastrophe which
overlook the fast train. The story is best
told in her own words. as follows:
Il was sitting about the middle OF the
second coach from the engine, and the
train was running at high rate of speed
when the accident happened. The
shock was terrific. l was thrown vio-
lently against the seat in front of me.
The train stopped suddenly. In a min
ute all was confusion, and / was at a
loss to know what had happened. |
soon heard shrieks from the passengers
in the coach in rear of the one l was in,
n IL.
full had happened, 1 raised the window
and looked out. The sight frightened me.
The entire sides of the two coaches
Immediately in rear of the one L was
in were crushed in and l could see the
passengers climbing out over the coal
cars lying on the adjoining track. The
passengers who were not njured assisted
in removing the killed and wounded. 1t
was sight that l will never forget. Sew
eral women in the car swooned away
when they saw what had happened"
j. III. Peach, of the Bellevue VI iffien
Company, of this State, was passenger
on the third coach from the smoking car
and related a graphic account of the
heart rending scenes which followed the
death dealing crash. His statement is
as follows:
Il was sitting he said, '.about four
seats to the rear of Dale Graham when
the trains collided. The entire side of
our coach was crushed in, and young
Graham was literally buried beneath the
ruins, But no moan escaped his lips and
he must have died instantly, for he was
about the first victim we set about to re-
cover. When extricated from the wreck
| his form was lifeless. The side of the
car was crushed down ON top of him,
and this, with large quantity of coal
| from, the freight car, had crushed the
young mans life out of him before any
| assistance could be rendered. l never
want to witness such distressing
scenes again. IL makes my flesh
| quiver when / think about it,
The piercing shrieks of women.
mingled with the agonized cries of men
completely overpowered me now, al
though when the sad calamity occurred
1 managed to keep possession of my
senses and aided in rescuing the victims
to the best of my ability. We must
have been running at the rate of about
thirty miles an hour at the time the col
lision occurred. ard the freight. l should
judge, was going about twelve miles an
hour. The freight was heavily loaded
and the terrible crash caused a panic
that three times as many were not